[ i forgot they got forcibly dressed like this so you know what this is the FUNNIEST option i could have taken FOR REAL. he looks around, ignoring his own get-up ]
Spa, I think. They're luxury treatments. Usually include special baths and massages and... stuff like that. We had one in the Realm.
[ there are some back home too, but cloud has never been to anything more than a specialty hand massage parlor. we don't speak of that. ]
As far as things to find in a hotel, a place built to relax isn't too out there. Can't say the same about that drug place.
Considering how these things go, it'll end up involved in a murder sooner or later. Might as well see what it's supposed to look like for later investigations if nothing else.
[ and what a fun time this would be! and is for at least a few minutes as they walk! and then cloud squints ]
... Is that... glitter all over the place?
[ it is not! it is a memory of a very fun presentation where nothing terrible happens at all and it also doesn't cut off in a very dramatic way. i chose this because the exposition is very "all final fantasies are the same" ]
[small mercies... the way the bodies glitched away, at least, didn't look like they truly died.
he opens his mouth to ask more about the destruction, the fire, but the stardust isn't letting them off that easy. cloud gets a memory in turn, while their brains are apparently on the subject of ancients.]
[ that's about all he gets to say about how reality is often a hologram being hijacked by aliens (don't ask) before he gets his own turn on the memory share machine. considering what the last meeting like this he witnessed was, this one is a lot... more bearable.
he can't help but wonder how that emet-selch becomes the other one, but that's not new. at the end of it he shakes his head. the feeling of experiencing someone else's memories... still sucks. ]
... Return to the star, huh? At home, everyone returns to the lifestream.
[ it's not so different a concept. all ff the same??? ]
...I am given to understand it is called the lifestream, in the future, but in my time the flow of aether throughout our home is known as the Underworld, when not referred to as returning to the star itself.
It has been much the same for me-- although the fact that we manipulate aether to such a degree appears to be a sticking point, as well. I've been asked more than once if my people are gods.
I can't say anyone back home is that good at manipulating mako, but... [ he shrugs ] You saw the presentation. Might be you're a lot closer to those. Wouldn't call any of them gods, either.
[him again-- this one is more disorienting, with the noise, the explanation for it. it sounds, from the girl's explanation, almost as if something wrong with the underworld itself, or at least cloud's version of it. souls disrupted, the natural order shaken in some way.]
[ well, first of all, ow, his constant headaches. they are not getting better with these memories. but after a while of looking off into space, wincing, he answers; ]
... Changing fate. Those things you saw flying around... They're called the arbiters of fate. They show up when someone tries to alter destiny. But... him even being around is changing things, we think.
Only way to stop him was to follow. Change the future ourselves.
We only just beat him. Got out the other side. He's still around, but... those things weren't anymore. So we're on his trail. Whatever happens from now on, destiny has no say in it.
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Spa, I think. They're luxury treatments. Usually include special baths and massages and... stuff like that. We had one in the Realm.
[ there are some back home too, but cloud has never been to anything more than a specialty hand massage parlor. we don't speak of that. ]
As far as things to find in a hotel, a place built to relax isn't too out there. Can't say the same about that drug place.
[ ff7 has no opium. ]
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[what is the POINT of the drug room he doesn't know it. but lup and molly are here so i assume it will be a matter of time, tbh.]
I suppose we may as well examine it.
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[ and what a fun time this would be! and is for at least a few minutes as they walk! and then cloud squints ]
... Is that... glitter all over the place?
[ it is not! it is a memory of a very fun presentation where nothing terrible happens at all and it also doesn't cut off in a very dramatic way. i chose this because the exposition is very "all final fantasies are the same" ]
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[-nope! it absolutely isn't!
when it ends, he's left catching his breath for a moment, after that fiery scene, but:]
What was-- [a slight shake of his head, there.] ...is this the man you mentioned?
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... Yeah. At the end there. That was... Sephiroth.
[ who was maybe or maybe not there and definitely didn't kill his companions but also he hates his life ]
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[small mercies... the way the bodies glitched away, at least, didn't look like they truly died.
he opens his mouth to ask more about the destruction, the fire, but the stardust isn't letting them off that easy. cloud gets a memory in turn, while their brains are apparently on the subject of ancients.]
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[ that's about all he gets to say about how reality is often a hologram being hijacked by aliens (don't ask) before he gets his own turn on the memory share machine. considering what the last meeting like this he witnessed was, this one is a lot... more bearable.
he can't help but wonder how that emet-selch becomes the other one, but that's not new. at the end of it he shakes his head. the feeling of experiencing someone else's memories... still sucks. ]
... Return to the star, huh? At home, everyone returns to the lifestream.
[ it's not so different a concept. all ff the same??? ]
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...I am given to understand it is called the lifestream, in the future, but in my time the flow of aether throughout our home is known as the Underworld, when not referred to as returning to the star itself.
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... It's the flow of mako under the surface of the planet at home. [ :o ] First time I've heard anywhere else have something similar.
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[ all final fantasies... the same? he's looking warily around in case there is more glitter but sees none... yet... ]
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[FINALLY, someone is familiar with something like it. all ffs are the SAME.]
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[ he is also like thank GOD i don't have to explain this concept ]
Every time I've talked about it here people have looked at me like I'm nuts.
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[ but apparently they have been bonding too much without consequences so here's another memory (until 40:37 but you can ignore the bits where cloud isn't there because obviously he cannot see that)! wow! i realized sephiroth does not have an interrupted cutscene to ruin my life so i guess this is the evil explanatory lore from a cute girl! ]
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...What in the world did he mean to do?
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... Changing fate. Those things you saw flying around... They're called the arbiters of fate. They show up when someone tries to alter destiny. But... him even being around is changing things, we think.
Only way to stop him was to follow. Change the future ourselves.
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We only just beat him. Got out the other side. He's still around, but... those things weren't anymore. So we're on his trail. Whatever happens from now on, destiny has no say in it.
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[he maybe envies that, in a way.
and the memory cloud gets again in return will likely explain why. (up to 1:41:56 from the timestamp i am so sorry it's so fucking long.)]
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... That's what you were telling me, right? About that guy deciding to erase your memories for a fair trial to decide the fate of... what, everything?
[ THAT SEEMS LIKE A LOT JUST BECAUSE SOME RACES WERE BUMMED OUT!! ]
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[IT TRULY IS A LOT. meteion joker moments.]
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[ hermes is harley quinn... ]
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